America’s Most Lopsided Defeat: The Battle of Wyoming

When the United States Congress officially established the Wyoming Territory in 1868, most locals had no idea what it was named for.

Based on the native American term "mecheweamiing", meaning "at the big plains", Wyoming was originally named for a valley in northeastern Pennsylvania, which later became the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Wyoming.

The poem became so popular, it eventually inspired the name for towns named Wyoming in Iowa, Illiniois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin along with Wyoming County, West Virginia, Wyoming District, New Jersey and Wyoming County, New York.